Pondexter Named to Wooden Preseason All-America Team
Aug 13 | Women's Basketball
PISCATAWAY, NJ - Rutgers rising senior Cappie Pondexter (Chicago, IL) has been named one of 30 members of the Women's Wooden Award Preseason All-America Team, making her one of the early candidates to win the group's national player-of-the-year award.
Pondexter, a 5-9 guard, averaged 17.9 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.8 steals per game for the Scarlet Knights last season, earning All-America honors from the Associated Press (third team), Full Court Press (third team) and Kodak/Women's Basketball Coaches Association (honorable mention). A finalist for three national player-of-the-year awards (Women's Wooden Award, State Farm Wade Trophy and Naismith) as well as the Nancy Lieberman Award (top point guard), Pondexter also was named to the 2004 Kodak/WBCA All-Region 1 Team, was unanimously selected to the All-BIG EAST First Team, and earned a spot on the BIG EAST All-Tournament Team after averaging a tourney-best 23.3 points per game in leading RU to a runner-up finish. An honorable mention All-America selection by Kodak/WBCA in 2003, she twice was named the BIG EAST Conference Co-Player of the Week last winter, and she earned a spot on the Preseason WNIT All-Tournament Team.
She is one of five players to appear on both the 2003-2004 final voting ballot and the 2004-2005 preseason list - Seimone Augustus (LSU), Pondexter, Heather Schreiber (Texas), Khara Smith (Depaul) and Kendra Wecker (Kansas State).
The Scarlet Knights (21-12, 10-6 BIG EAST) advanced to their sixth NCAA Championship in the last seven years, and finished as the runners-up at the 2004 BIG EAST Championship.
Women's Wooden Award Preseason All-America Team
Seimone Augustus, Jr.,
G, LSU
Jacqueline Batteast, Sr., F, Notre Dame
Steffanie Blackmon, Sr., F, Baylor
Nikki Blue, Jr., G, UCLA
Jamie Carey, Sr., G, Texas
Monique Currie, Jr., G, Duke
Shyra Elykink, Sr., F, Tennessee
Emily Faurholt, Jr., F, Idaho State
Katie Feenstra, Sr., C, Liberty
Katie Gearlds, So., G, Purdue
Sandora Irvin, Sr., F, TCU
Dionnah Jackson, Sr., G, Oklahoma
Tiffany Jackson, So., F, Texas
Temeka Johnson, Sr., G, LSU
Camille Little, So., G/F, North Carolina
Kristen Mann, Sr., F, UC Santa Barbara
Janel McCarville, Sr., F, Minnesota
Loree Moore, Sr., G, Tennessee
Shawntinice Polk, Jr., C, Arizona
Cappie Pondexter, Sr., G, Rutgers
Noelle Quinn, So., G, UCLA
Heather Schreiber, Sr., F/G, Texas
Khara Smith, Jr., F, Depaul
Kim Smith, So., F, Utah
Ann Strother, Jr., G, Connecticut
Kelley Suminski, Sr., G, Stanford
Barbara Turner, Jr., G/F, Connecticut
Kendra Wecker, Sr., F, Kansas State
Tan White, Sr., G Mississippi State
Tanisha Wright, Sr., G, Penn State
